Delaware County Engineer

50 Channing Street

Delaware, Ohio 43015

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CHRIS E. BAUSERMAN, PE, PS • DELAWARE COUNTY ENGINEER

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BRIDGE DEPARTMENT

The Bridge Department handles maintenance and repair of over 360 county maintained bridges, and also builds new culverts and bridges under force-account with county owned construction equipment.

Bridge Construction:

Between 1998 and 2008, the Bridge Department replaced 52 structures with new box or pipe culverts.  In-house (force-account) construction is cost efficient due to low overhead costs and work efficiency realized by building similar structures repeatedly.  Materials are purchased through competitively bid contracts by suppliers.

Bridge Maintenance:

The four members of the Bridge Department staff also perform regular maintenance on existing bridges including pothole and deck repairs, railing repairs, cleaning drains and repairing concrete.  Maintaining the $116 million county bridge inventory is vitally important to the safety and welfare of Delaware County citizens.